Yes it was very good, even better than the previous series and it couldn't not have some emotion in it - yes there are unreconstructed sci-fi bores out there who think emotion should play no part in this programme but it would have played very badly if they brought it back in the same mould as the 60s/70s versions where the emotional dimension was largely missing.
When I was 10 years old, excitedly watching the latest Pertwee or Baker adventure, I would have cringed if there'd been that sort of emotional content, as I was a little boy who hadn't experienced that sort of thing yet and therefore couldn't appreciate it - I would have dismissed it as yukky stuff. Unfortunately, there are adults out there who have never progressed beyond that infantile stage, who have had little or no emotional involvement with anyone other than themselves, and they're generally the ones who still cry "Eurrggh! Yukky stuff!" now.